Super Macross Mecha Fun Time Discussion Thread!

[JB0]

7 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Wasn't Stealth a box office flop? 😆

They don't know, because the sales records were destroyed in the bombardment.




Edit:: And I've nerd-sniped myself. I've spent the last couple hours imagining the Stealth-class frigates being named after pre-war movies, and which movies would be great or terrible. 

Like, who wouldn't want to be on the NUNS Kickboxer? That's just an awesome name. Or the NUNS Phantom Menace. 
But NUNS Broken Arrow? Heck naw, you'll never hear the end of the unsecured weapons jokes. The NUNS Die Harder? What does that even mean?!
Maybe NUNS Independence Day, but I want the the ID4 to be a New Macross-class. We need this name attached to something with a really big gun. Also, Independence Day isn't nearly as cool after the aliens have ACTUALLY laid waste to your homeworld. 

And then I realized the timeline allows for an NUNS Goldmember, and I wept at the wound I have inflicted upon myself. . 

Edited March 7 by JB0

[Seto Kaiba]

5 hours ago, JB0 said:

They don't know, because the sales records were destroyed in the bombardment.

I'd just cross my fingers and hope that all copies of that one were lost in the war.

 

5 hours ago, JB0 said:

Edit:: And I've nerd-sniped myself. I've spent the last couple hours imagining the Stealth-class frigates being named after pre-war movies, and which movies would be great or terrible. 

Like, who wouldn't want to be on the NUNS Kickboxer? That's just an awesome name. Or the NUNS Phantom Menace. 
But NUNS Broken Arrow? Heck naw, you'll never hear the end of the unsecured weapons jokes. The NUNS Die Harder? What does that even mean?!
Maybe NUNS Independence Day, but I want the the ID4 to be a New Macross-class. We need this name attached to something with a really big gun. Also, Independence Day isn't nearly as cool after the aliens have ACTUALLY laid waste to your homeworld. 

... a few of those you might be able to get away with. 😅

There's a city named Broken Arrow in Oklahoma, for instance, and we know they name ships and classes after municipalities still (e.g. Northampton, Uraga, Brampton).  You could probably get away with Hunter's Moon too... we've had Silver Moon and Red Moon.  There've been a few warships named Chameleon already.  A few named Legion too.  Star Runner doesn't sound too out of place either.  Kickboxer wouldn't even look that out-of-place... the US and British navies have had a BUNCH of ships named Boxer (and yes, the original ship was named for the sport).

I'd be worried about a ship named the Hard Boiled.  That seems like they'd cause a lot of unnecessary property damage.

 

5 hours ago, JB0 said:

And then I realized the timeline allows for an NUNS Goldmember, and I wept at the wound I have inflicted upon myself. . 

In the wise words of Radiohead... "You do it to yourself, you do. And that's what really hurts."

[sketchley]

Well, for better or worse, the producers of Macross use different naming schemes (a la Delta's characters named after famous jets and pilots), and they seem to choose less silly names out of public suggestions*—such as "Messiah" in the Newtype mail-in promotion during the initial part of Frontier's run.

 

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRS_Sir_David_Attenborough#Naming_poll

... though, it would be great to see NUNS ships named "Boaty McBoatface" and "It's Bloody Cold Here"! 🤣

[RangerKarl]

Every different world/emigration fleet should honestly have their own fleet naming scheme. It might detract from whatever theme the writer wants at the time though. 

[Seto Kaiba]

On 3/7/2026 at 2:27 AM, sketchley said:

... though, it would be great to see NUNS ships named "Boaty McBoatface" and "It's Bloody Cold Here"! 🤣

It's all fun and games until someone has to actually serve on the Northampton-class Domo Arigato Mr. Furigato.

 

11 hours ago, RangerKarl said:

Every different world/emigration fleet should honestly have their own fleet naming scheme. It might detract from whatever theme the writer wants at the time though. 

Well, you'd think with dozens of different nations right here on Earth each maintaining their own navy there'd be some pretty significant variation in naming schemes... but most of them go in for the same basic strategy of naming ships after places (major cities, states/provinces/counties, landmarks), heads of state, celebrated veterans, objects of national pride (e.g. official state flowers, birds, etc.), or various adjectives of an aspirational nature (e.g. "fearless").

Most of the emigrant fleets and planets don't have enough history yet to have their own body of celebrated veterans, heads of state, etc. and the like to name ships after.  

[RangerKarl]

Sad, but I guess Culture-style ship names don't come off the same way in Japanese

[Seto Kaiba]

1 hour ago, RangerKarl said:

Sad, but I guess Culture-style ship names don't come off the same way in Japanese

They have their own approach to it...

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force has a profound love of theme naming.  In most cases, all the ships of a particular class follow the same theme.  You've got the usual ones named for provinces, towns, islands, peninsulas, etc.  Then you've got the ones where they really went ham with it and every ship of the class is named for kinds of rain, or wave, or ocean current or just different adjectives stuck in front of a common word.  <Something> Dragon, <Something> Moon, <Something> Whale, etc.

China does something similar, with all their submarines of a type have the same name.  All the boomer subs are Long March #, and all the regular ones are Great Wall #.  

 

Maybe farther down the road, once some of these emigrant governments in Macross are more established, we'll start seeing more idiosyncratic naming schemes for their warships.  (Though I guess it's pretty hard to maintain a theme across potentially hundreds of warships.)